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Rarely will architects be as intensely aware of their client’s involvement as when they are designing for fellow architects. So when the Royal Institute of Dutch Architects (Bond van Nederlandse Architecten [BNA]) selected the young Rotterdam-based firm of BAR Architects (now merged with architecten Van Mourik) from a field of eight competitors to design the interior of its new offices, BAR’s principals Joost Glissenaar and Klaas van der Molen were very conscious of the weight of the commission. They formulated a light and airy response.